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Bookmark this pageA Distant Trumpet (1964)
Director: Raoul Walsh
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Walsh's last film, saddled with an average script and a colourless lead performance from Donahue, but nevertheless emerging as a majestically simple, sweeping cavalry Western, a little reminiscent of Ford in mood and manner. Brilliantly shot by William Clothier, it tends to have its cake and eat it by indulging in a spectacular massacre before introducing the liberal message, but still goes further than most in according respect to the Indian by letting him speak his own language (with subtitles). The laconic mastery here belies the accusations of decline levelled at Walsh, even if many of his later films were disappointing.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Raoul Walsh
Producer: William H Wright
Cast: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, James Gregory, Diane McBain, William Reynolds, Claude Akins, Judson Pratt, Bartlett Robinson, Bobby Bare, Richard X Slattery, Larry Ward, Kent Smith full cast
Genre(s): Westerns
Duration: 116 mins
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